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Australian Birds Fairywren

Male Superb fairywren Maluridae

Galah

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Galahs are about 35 cm (14 in) long and weigh 270–350 g. They have a pale grey to mid-grey back, a pale grey rump, a pink face and chest, and a light pink mobile </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crest_(feathers)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Crest (feathers)">crest</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">. They have a bone-coloured beak and the bare skin of the eye rings is carunculated. They have grey legs. The genders appear similar, however generally adult birds differ in the colour of the irises; the male has very dark brown (almost black) </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_(anatomy)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Iris (anatomy)">irises</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, and the female has mid-brown or red irises. The colours of the juveniles are duller than the adults. Juveniles have greyish chests, crowns, and crests, and they have brown irises and whitish bare eye rings, which are not carunculated.</span><br />
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Australian Birds Galah

Male Female Male Galahs are about 35 cm (14 in) long and weigh 270–350 g. They have a pale grey to mid-grey back, a pale gr...

Common bronzewing

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Male">Males</a> of the species have pale-yellow to yellow-white foreheads, and pink breasts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-back_2-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bronzewing#cite_note-back-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-com_4-0" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bronzewing#cite_note-com-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> Both males and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Female">females</a> have an easily discernible white line around and proximate to their eyes. Common bronzewings also have patches of red, blue and green on their wings, a feature which is characteristic of all<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronzewing_pigeon" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bronzewing pigeon">bronzewing pigeons</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-back_2-2" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bronzewing#cite_note-back-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-com_4-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bronzewing#cite_note-com-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a></sup> Young birds are usually duller in colour and browner than the mature common bronzewing.</div>
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Rarely found far from a source of water, common bronzewings either travel alone or in pairs or in flocks, and are usually cautious, making approach by humans or other animals difficult.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-back_2-3" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bronzewing#cite_note-back-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a></sup> Common bronzewings are, on average, between 30 and 36 centimetres (12–14 in) in length.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Syd_3-1" style="font-size: 11.1999998092651px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bronzewing#cite_note-Syd-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a></sup></div>
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Australian Birds Common bronzewing

A male common bronzewing in Queensland Males of the species have pale-yellow to yellow-white foreheads, and pink breasts. [2] [4] Bo...

Australian magpie

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Australian magpie</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> (</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Cracticus tibicen</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">) is a medium-sized black and white </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Passerine">passerine</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> bird native to</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Australia">Australia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> and southern </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="New Guinea">New Guinea</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">. A member of the</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artamidae" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Artamidae">Artamidae</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, it is closely related to the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butcherbird" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Butcherbird">butcherbirds</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> (but not to the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_magpie" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Eurasian magpie">European magpie</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, which is a </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvid" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Corvid">corvid</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">). At one stage, the Australian magpie was considered to be three separate species, although zones of hybridisation between forms reinforced the idea of a single species with several </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subspecies" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Subspecies">subspecies</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, nine of which are now recognised. The adult Australian magpie is a fairly robust bird ranging from 37 to 43 cm (14.5–17 in) in length, with distinctive black and white</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumage" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Plumage">plumage</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, gold brown eyes and a solid wedge-shaped bluish-white and black bill. </span></div>

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Australian Birds

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The <b>Australasian darter</b> or <b>Australian darter</b>(<i>Anhinga novaehollandiae</i>) is a species of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bird">bird</a> in the darter family, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhingidae" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Anhingidae">Anhingidae</a>. It is found in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Australia">Australia</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>. It weighs around 2.6 kg, spans 85–90 cm in length, and has a lifespan of up to 15 years.</div>
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It is closely related to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhinga" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Anhinga">American</a> (<i>Anhinga anhinga</i>),<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_darter" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="African darter">African</a> (<i>Anhinga rufa</i>), and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_darter" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Oriental darter">Oriental</a> (<i>Anhinga melanogster</i>) darters.</div>
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Typical <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Habitat">habitat</a> is freshwater or <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackish" style="background: none; color: #0b0080;" title="Brackish">brackish</a> wetlands more than 0.5 m deep with fallen trees or logs and vegetated banks; less commonly, darters are found in sheltered saltwater or estuarine environments.</div>
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